>I'm going to make an Web site with visual foxpro5.0
>To tell you the truth, I used to developed some applications with foxpro2.5 dos version but this is the
>first time to visual foxpro and don't know about
>connecting database with web site.
>Is there any solotion to make an web site with vfp5.0?
>would you please let me know what to do?
The answer is yes and was yes for 3.0 as well.
You can see this as 3 different ways.
The first one is to use direct ODBC access, which consist of using some kind of additional 3rd party HTML tags that will do the necessary job to do SQL stuff at the backend without having to write any FoxPro code at all. A product like Cold Fusion is using this technique.
The second one consist of using a parser which will make Visual FoxPro ready to read incoming data from the Web and send the result back to the front end. FoxWeb, XWorks and West Wind Connection are using this technique. Those are very powerful tools.
The last one, since 5.0, is to use built in ISAPI in Visual FoxPro to do about the same thing as the second technique but to use Microsoft own tools. Not very powerful and used in real time Web systems but will avoid spending a few hundreds of dollards if your corporation don't have the budjet.
